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The Club Q mass shooting in Colorado Springs that left five people dead and many more injured is raising questions about the state’s red flag gun law and the sheriffs who oppose it.
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The mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs is a tragedy that underscores a troubling pattern of hate crimes against the LGBTQ community in the Mountain West.
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The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a wedding cake for a gay couple a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling that he violated the state's anti-discrimination law — this time over complaints he refused to make a birthday cake celebrating a gender transition.
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Adree Edmo officially became the first incarcerated person to get court-ordered gender confirmation surgery in July 2020. Now, her team of lawyers will be granted nearly $2.6 million in attorney fees for the years of litigation.
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Among survey respondents across the eight states that make up the Mountain West, about 67% support policies that protect trans individuals from discrimination in jobs, housing or in public spaces. That's compared to 64% nationwide.
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For the first time this year, the FireKracker 5K in Fort Collins allowed runners to register as male, female or non-binary. Steph Campbell is the first winner of the non-binary category.
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Northern Colorado is celebrating Pride this month, and one initiative is focusing on the impacts LGBTQ+ people have had in the region. The Northern Colorado Queer Memory Project was founded in 2021 to share their stories.KUNC's Samantha Coetzee spoke with founder Tom Dunn about the project. Dunn has been studying queer history since 2005.
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Creating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ teens to express themselves is now more important than ever. Organizations in Colorado are working to create more of these spaces, including Longmont’s Firehouse Art Center and the Boulder Public Library. Together they created Slay the Runway in 2021, which is a design program for LGBTQ+ teens.KUNC’s Samantha Coetzee spoke with co-creator and Faculty Director for the B2 Center for Media Arts and Performance, Steven Frost, about the program.
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A new report evaluates the business climate for LGBTQ+ people in every state, and most of the Mountain West ranks on the low end.
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Across the Mountain West and beyond, right-wing politicians are pushing a wave of discriminatory laws. But that’s only one of the issues motivating a record number of LGBTQ candidates.